Baldur Bjarnason

“AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince” https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining > At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!

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“How to use AI doom marketing to dupe the media and rake in billions in 10 easy steps” https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-use-ai-doom-marketing-to-dupe > The Mythos campaign is nothing less than the ne plus ultra of AI ‘doom marketing’

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> Without significant changes to how these systems are developed and deployed, they will continue to undermine international human rights laws and standards. www. amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This is a pretty good report overall. Hard to disagree with any of th…

Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International amnesty.org

“How Anthropic used AI ethics slop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI” https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-anthropic-used-its-ai-ethicslop > Anthropic’s opportunism leaves a stain on the entire encyclical

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https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory > But there’s a difference between an observation about the past and a law of nature, and the optimists consistently confuse the two Some people need this phrase tattooed in reverse on their foreheads so they read it in the…

The Dead Economy Theory owenmcgrann.com

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/why-anthropics-ultra-dirty-deal-shouldnt-surprise-you-at-all/ > Anthropic do not care. They never cared. And it’s pretty absurd that they managed to win the exact opposite perception in a PR battle, in advance of a looming IPO.

Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all ketanjoshi.co

“Hidden Signals Can Hijack AI Voice Systems - IEEE Spectrum” https://spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-audio-attacks > Research shows sounds unheard by human ears can hijack models’ behavior The entirety of the “AI” ecosystem has been built in perfect ignorance of basic security prac…

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“It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online” https://henry.codes/writing/it-doesnt-matter-if-it-works/ > AI/LLMs are the perfect tool for the capitalist because it doesn’t matter if it works; it threatens the workforce either way.

It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online henry.codes

“AI Is entering health care, and nurses are being asked to trust it | Scientific American” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-is-entering-health-care-and-nurses-are-being-asked-to-trust-it/

AI enters the exam room, and nurses are left to manage the fallout scientificamerican.com

Just once I’d like to see journalists and politicians show at least a grain of scepticism about the claims being made by “AI” vendors. Just once. Just because anthropic styles their reports to look like scientific or academic papers doesn’t make them sound or credible.

One of the annoying consequences of LLMs is that many people now seem eager to dismiss any and all writing that people enjoy as “obviously LLM-generated”, just because it uses em-dashes or writing structures with decades if not centuries of history in English.

Finding productive uses for LLMs while at the same time doing nothing to mitigate the numerous harms makes things WORSE not better. Responding to “AI” critique by saying that they have their uses and with work we can make them genuinely productive is not a rational response. It’s accelerationism

The problem with positioning yourself as a sensible and reasonable moderate user of LLM software development tools is it means you’ll be the first up against the metaphorical wall if either the anti- or pro- sides truly gain the upper hand.

We’re at the stage of the bubble where the elderly and retired start to talk about the amazing revolution that is “AI” and start buying “AI training courses for the elderly” because they think they’re missing out on a tech purpose-designed to make office and creative industry workers unemployed

Sometimes I look at the people on both sides of the "AI" debate hawking sponsorships, getting major book deals, and doing the youtube roadshow and wonder if I'd have had an easier time financially if I had gone down that road Probably not. It'd have driven me bonkers 🤷‍♂️

So tempted to find one of those “signs of LLM writing” lists and just make sure that everything I write intentionally checks all the boxes just to fuck with people.

Somebody’s running an ad campaign in Icelandic radio promoting free courses on how to use “AI”. The target audience seems to be retirees and older people.